anniversary of the i have a dream speech. this is a little over an hour. i want to begin with a standard image of martin luther king in his relationship to americans to their culture and we tend to think of him of the icon of the loftiest dreams of universal humanity, the great high flow and moral ideal, the e-alitoian dreamer that turned the other cheek. it s not a black dream, not a white dream but a dream that transcended race in some sense. and this noble king in many ways is part of a whole narrative of st. martin, the kind of utter perfect person, utterly noble. [inaudibl [inaudible] the identities up through evangelical christianity which brought their identity into the modern civic world, we re here too and in some sense we think is a break with all of that stress on the particular identity. now, it s not that this conventional image of king is wrong. but it s highly partial and what i try to do in my book is sort of take us to a more complicated picture of king